ETH's anthropomorphic robot hand learns to walk on its own fingers, untethered
ethz · hf · 2026-09-18
ETH Zurich demonstrates an anthropomorphic robotic hand that uses its fingers for locomotion, self-support, and manipulation. Using reinforcement learning with rewards tailored to unequal fingers and a simulator calibrated from hardware, the untethered hand crawls, steers, recovers from falls, types keyboard commands blind, and pushes objects to targets with overhead visual feedback — a compact mobile manipulator with no separate locomotion mechanism.
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